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The Eternal
looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and
annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in
His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
-- Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi
Mystic Poet
Eternity is a
terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
-- Tom Stoppard
1937-, Czech Playwright
In eternity
there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these
times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself
culminates in the present moment and will never be more
divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go
a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the
sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current
slides away but eternity remains.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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